Re-Order Animations in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows

Learn to re-order animations on a slide in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.

Author:Geetesh Bajaj

Product/Version: PowerPoint 2016 for Windows

OS: Windows 7 and higher

Date Created:Last Updated:

PowerPoint allows you to animate any slide object that can be selected on your slide. Such objects include pictures, shapes, text, bulleted
lists, SmartArt graphics, charts, etc. You can tweak the way objects on your slides appear, move, and disappear after adding animation. Follow
these steps to add animation to a shape in PowerPoint 2016:

Open a new presentation, and insert a
shape. Or open any existing presentation you have, and select an unanimated slide object to which you want to add animation.
Figure 1, below shows a Star shape is selected. With the shape selected, click the Animations tab of the
Ribbon (highlighted in blue within
Figure 1).

Figure 1: Animations tab of the Ribbon

Note: Although we are using a shape within this example, the same technique will work to add animation to any slide object
within PowerPoint.

Within the Animations tab, click the Add Animation button (highlighted in
red within Figure 2).

Figure 2: Add Animation button

This opens the Add Animation drop-down gallery, as shown in Figure 3. Within this gallery, you'll find
four animation types: Entrance,
Emphasis,
Exit, and
Motion
Paths. If you cannot see all animations, especially the Motion Path animation types, you can scroll down to see them all.

Figure 3: Add Animation drop-down gallery

Within the Add Animation drop-down gallery, click any of the animation effect thumbnails to apply the animation to the
selected slide object. For this tutorial, we chose the Zoom animation effect (highlighted in red
within Figure 4) within the Entrance animation type, as shown in Figure 4.

Figure 4: Zoom animation effect selected

This will cause the selected slide object to animate once, so as to preview the selected animation as shown in Figure 5.

If you want to explore more Entrance animation effects, select the More Entrance Effects option within
the Add Animation drop-down gallery (highlighted in red within Figure 3, earlier
on this page).

This launches the Add Entrance Effect dialog box as shown in Figure 6. Within this dialog box, the
Entrance animation effects are grouped into four different categories named Basic, Subtle,
Moderate, and Exciting. Select any one of these Entrance animation effects and click the
OK button to apply it to the selected shape. As you can see in Figure 6, we have selected the
Wheel effect (highlighted in red within Figure 6) in the Basic
category. You can also see a live preview of the animation
effect on the selected shape in Figure 6.

Figure 6: Add Entrance Effect dialog box

Note: To view the live preview of the animation effect, the Preview Effect check-box within
Add Entrance Effect dialog box should be selected as shown highlighted in blue within
Figure 6. If the Add Entrance Effect dialog box overlaps the slide object, you can't see the effect of the
selected animation. Therefore, it is a good idea to place the dialog box in a position that is a little offset from the animated slide object on the
slide.

You can add animation types other than Entrance in the same way. Just choose the relevant animation effect for
Emphasis, Exit, and Motion Path animations.

Tip: If your slide has more than one slide object, you can also add animation effects for all of them using the same process.
Remember that any animation added first will play first, and any animations added thereafter will play in the same sequence as you added
them. You can also change the animation sequence. Learn more in our
Re-Order Animations in PowerPoint 2016
tutorial.

Now that you have added an animation to a slide object, you can control more animation properties like
event and
speed.

Organic Shapes with Brush Edges

You get 8 shape types plus lines as part of this Organic Shapes collection. Each of these 8 shape types have 10 variants. So you end up with 80
hand-drawn shape options! Again each of these 80 shapes have 12 brush stroke styles! Plus you get the lines and arrows in 12 brush stroke styles too.
Combine all variations to end up with more than 3000 possibilities.